The free, self-paced micro-courses showed an 82% completion retention rate, and most participants found the online, asynchronous format appealing¶
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q2 i? At least 556 teachers engaged with the micro-courses and at least 458 completed all three (82% retention), which the authors call much higher than expected for free, self-paced online courses; 78% and 74% ranked online and asynchronous instruction as appealing or very appealing. → Lauren E. Margulieux · Brendan D. Calandra · Bryan Cox 2026
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Lauren E. Margulieux · Brendan D. Calandra · Bryan Cox 2026¶
Lauren E. Margulieux · Brendan D. Calandra · Bryan Cox. (2026). Online professional development to support K‑12 teachers' computer science integration. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10640-z
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Enrollment and completion counts across three years of data collection (2020–2023) for the MICRO courses. The article reports "an 82% retention rate"; separately, 78% and 74% of participants ranked "online instruction" and "asynchronous instruction" as appealing or very appealing.
"at least 556 in-service and preservice teachers engaged with the micro-courses and at least 458 teachers completed all three courses. These data show an 82% retention rate, which was much higher than expected for free, self-paced, online courses."
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Related Claims¶
- A review of music education asserts that MOOC completion is typically under 10% and that embodied musical learning resists short video lectures and self-graded quizzes — reports the opposite
- Program appeal rested on flexibility and financial savings, with some modules completable in under 10 minutes — related
- Asynchronous lessons were rated higher than synchronous lessons on the POET-O — related
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The free, self-paced micro-courses showed an 82% completion retention rate, and most participants found the online, asynchronous format appealing |
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The free, self-paced micro-courses showed an 82% completion retention rate, and most participants found the online, asynchronous format appealing |
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